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New Articles Don't Wannabe Mean, Just Wannabe Meaningful, JoAnn Deak, Ph.D Literacy Incorporating Writing into Dramatic Play Back to Index Best Practice Helping Children in Times of Crisis What Are Children Learning When They Play by Marian Edelman Borden Worksheet Blues To Do or Not To Do: What Is Age Appropriate? Room Arrangement: The Basics Room Arrangement Designs Reggio Emilia At NAEYC Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? Developmentally Appropriate Practices: An Explanation for Parents Answers to Commonly Asked Questions Concerning Developmentally Appropriate Practices ANSWERS TO CRITIQUES OF DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE AND THE NAEYC GUIDELINES Standardized Tests For Young Children? NOT!! Information on why standardized tests for young children don't measure what we think. Back to Index Learning Theory Brain Research: Implications for Instruction Learning: What We've Learned, New information on how children learn and its implication for schools Back to Index Kiddie Lit The Littlest Christmas Tree By Richard K. Conant Illustrated by M. Frances Patton Back to Index Education Transition from Preschool to Kindergarten, Ideas shared by preschool programs and school districts; dynamic list to which you are encouraged to add Change Is Not A Four-Letter Word, Strategies for sharing with families to strengthen the change process What's Right With American Public Education or What the Media and Public Officials Failed to Tell You Making the Most of a Conference with Your School Principal A Dialectic of Trust, Some thoughts about how we teachers can trust enough to learn from each other. By Sydney Gurewitz Clemens Thanksgiving Day, by Dick Conant Out of the mouths of babes! Standardized Tests For Young Children? NOT!! Information on why standardized tests for young children don't measure what we think. Visual Media and Young Children's Attention Spans by Gloria DeGaetano Back to Index Family Articles The Art of Teaching Art to Children, By Nancy Beal & Gloria Bley Miller. In chapters on collage, painting, clay, drawing, printmaking, and 3-D construction, Beal discusses how to set up the art situation and how to speak to children about their artwork to encourage their creative expression Don't Wannabe Mean, Just Wannabe Meaningful, JoAnn Deak, Ph.D What I'm Like, By Maureen O'Brien, PH.D. with Sherill Tippins Twinkle Twinkle, Little NeuronMusic and Your Child's Brain by Don Campbell Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood by  William Pollack, Ph.D. Make Cookies, Not War: Activities to encourage creative play and thwart the "I want that" syndrome by Gloria DeGaetano Choosing Your Child's Doctor, An excerpt from The 3 A.M. Handbook Making the Most of a Conference with Your School Principal Developmentally Appropriate Practices: An Explanation for Parents Answers to Commonly Asked Questions Concerning Developmentally Appropriate Practices Visual Media and Young Children's Attention Spans by Gloria DeGaetano Summer Fun : The Parents' Complete Guide to Day Camps, Overnight Camps, Specialty Summer Fun by Marian Edelman Borden Back to Index

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